“They are an empty basket”: teachers’ perspective on violence among children Siska Resti Maysara(1*), Tina Hayati Dahlan (1), Hani Yulindrasari (1)
1) Educational Psychology Program, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia Jl. Dr. Setiabudhi 229, Bandung 40154, Indonesia
*siskamaysara[at]upi.edu
Abstract
Violence behavior in Kindergarten children has raised concerns about how teachers handle children’s violence cases. Teachers’ involvement in preventing and coping with children’s violence behaviour relies on teachers’ assessment on the situation or on the care. Perceptions about children’s violence could be different among teachers and academics. Using grounded theory, this research tries to discover the underlying dominant discourses behind teachers’ perception of violence among children. This study interviewed three teachers from Kindergarten in West Bandung Regency Indonesia. The findings show that there are three discourses embedded in teachers’ perception of violence among children. The discourses are the normalization of violence among children, the innocent child children, and blaming the adults. All of these discourses are perpetuated by the dominant developmentalism discourse. Viewed from a post-structuralist lens, this study discusses alternative perspectives to address the problem of violence behavior in Kindergarten.
